From Mad in Deutschland: The Greek word iatrogenesis (from iatros = doctor and genesis = origin) refers to direct health damage due to medical treatments, such as side effects of medications. When I awoke on January 1, 2025, from my akathisia hell, which felt like a delirium, three questions, in addition to my general feeling of anger, were driving me: How could it have come to this? How can I make sense of what has happened to me in the last 16 years of psychiatric treatment and understand it personally? And: How does recovery from psychiatric treatment work?
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